People said the same thing when Saban went to LSU. Give him a few years.

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Saban is a stellar defensive coach who, correct me if I'm wrong, has always been a great recruiter. Those guys fit in easily. Bielema is a master of nothing and a poor recruiter. I'm trying to look at the upside and the only thing I'm seeing is that the lines might improve and that there could be more a focus on defense. Still, this is an incredibly average hire and completely expected from the guy who tried to hire Tommy Bowden and Jim Grobe.

Saban is a stellar defensive coach who, correct me if I'm wrong, has always been a great recruiter. Those guys fit in easily. Bielema is a master of nothing and a poor recruiter. I'm trying to look at the upside and the only thing I'm seeing is that the lines might improve and that there could be more a focus on defense. Still, this is an incredibly average hire and completely expected from the guy who tried to hire Tommy Bowden and Jim Grobe.

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The three time defending Big Ten champ is an average hire? Good lord son. Perhaps you would have been more pleased with a Derek Dooley type hire.

Saban is a stellar defensive coach who, correct me if I'm wrong, has always been a great recruiter. Those guys fit in easily. Bielema is a master of nothing and a poor recruiter. I'm trying to look at the upside and the only thing I'm seeing is that the lines might improve and that there could be more a focus on defense. Still, this is an incredibly average hire and completely expected from the guy who tried to hire Tommy Bowden and Jim Grobe.

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The three time defending Big Ten champ is an average hire? Good lord son. Perhaps you would have been more pleased with a Derek Dooley type hire.

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If he ends up winning the SEC one year I'll happily commend you for your initial outlook. For now I will stay skeptical and unimpressed.

People said the same thing when Saban went to LSU. Give him a few years.

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Saban is a stellar defensive coach who, correct me if I'm wrong, has always been a great recruiter. Those guys fit in easily. Bielema is a master of nothing and a poor recruiter. I'm trying to look at the upside and the only thing I'm seeing is that the lines might improve and that there could be more a focus on defense. Still, this is an incredibly average hire and completely expected from the guy who tried to hire Tommy Bowden and Jim Grobe.

no it's because I"m scared of Arkansas. now that they have the next Saban (who lost 5 games this year in a weak conference with a weak schedule), they're probably just going to annex the state of Ohio. if Urban Meyer is lucky, Bielema will let him coach punters.

Saban is a stellar defensive coach who, correct me if I'm wrong, has always been a great recruiter. Those guys fit in easily. Bielema is a master of nothing and a poor recruiter. I'm trying to look at the upside and the only thing I'm seeing is that the lines might improve and that there could be more a focus on defense. Still, this is an incredibly average hire and completely expected from the guy who tried to hire Tommy Bowden and Jim Grobe.

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Master of nothing? Lmao. I hate the guy but that is the farthest thing from the truth

no because I'm laughing at all the idiots who think this is some blow to the Big Ten. first of all......and this is a certainty.....he's going to flop HARD at Arkansas. secondly, Wisconsin isn't going to skip a beat once they bring Chryst back. I don't know if that's what they'll do......but they should. and if they do, they're going to continue in the rotation of teams competing for 4th, 5th, or 6th best in the Big Ten.

the fact that nobody wrote these "WHAT A BLOW TO THE SEC!!!!" articles when Kiffin or Meyer left shows you exactly what these articles are meant for......retard SEC fans. go ahead and jerk it to him all you want. you're going to be VERY disappointed. I'd say I'm still waiting for you to respond to the posts about how his record and ZOMG 3 ROSE BOWLS are illusions.....but I know better than to expect you to actually answer those.

no, I'm not trying to discredit him as a coach, I'm just saying that Wisconsin has been doing the same thing for awhile regardless of who is coaching them and that I will wait to crown Bielema's ass until I see him do it away from there

Wisconsin is almost always going to be able to put five NFL sized linemen out there and run the ball, that wasn't something that changed when he got there and it won't change when/if Chryst gets there

Wisconsin produces the fewest BCS recruits of any Big Ten state. I don't remember them being good before Alvarez and Bielema.

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I'm just talking about their OL which is basically what their team is built around

I wasn't really referring to anything beyond Alvarez anyway, I wasn't talking about their entire program history. Alvarez just got them to the point where they constantly had these giant linemen who just dominated the LOS and Bielema simply kept that trend going and I expect Chryst to as well

We shall see though, I'm not one of the people saying this is a hopeless hire or anything, I'm just saying I'll believe it's a good hire when I see it